(TheDrinksBusiness) - Grapes destined for dry white wine were most affected by last week’s storm in Bordeaux, which will have a knock-on-effect of the pricing of the 2013 vintage.

According to the CIVB, 2013 dry white Bordeaux from Entre-deux-Mers is set to become a rare commodity after a 10-minute hailstorm last Friday destroyed over 7,000 hectares in the area and caused damage to around 20,000 hectares.

“Entre-deux-Mers is where much of Bordeaux’s dry white wine is produced.

“While there is a lot of red wine in stock in Bordeaux, the same does not go for the whites. This storm will certainly affect prices and availability,” CIVB spokesman Christophe Château told news channel France 24.

“The storm was a damaging and dramatic event that could not have come at a worse time,” Château added, comparing it to the frosts of 1991 that destroyed much of the crop in Bordeaux that year.

Last week’s storm proved so powerful, it wrote off 5% of Bordeaux’s total vineyard area, with 10% of the region affected to some degree.